peace.

peace. ⁣

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something every single human being craves yet rarely tastes. peace is almost inaccessible to the modern man. ⁣

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like many things in life, peace comes in the form of a paradox. ⁣

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to truly find peace, you must learn to accept chaos. ⁣

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in a world obsessed with things being perfect, accepting chaos can collapse our entire belief system. ⁣

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what if we accepted that chaos wasn’t a bad thing but a natural part of life? ⁣

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would tolerance then be the norm?⁣

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one thing i have learned over the past few years is that you can’t argue with truth nor can you really ignore it. i mean you can… but it will still be there for whenever you choose to look at it. ⁣

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and you can most definitely spend your life avoiding it but i am guessing you (just like all of us) want peace. and peace comes at a price. ⁣

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the price is a willingness to see things for what they are and to accept them for what they are. ⁣

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to accept something doesn’t have to mean to agree with it. meaning you can accept something and want to change that thing. ⁣

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but acceptance is the birthplace for all things. ⁣

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you can’t run from the chaos in your life and expect to have peace. you can, however, accept the chaos and instantly have access to peace. ⁣

after acceptance, the door towards peace opens up for you.

you still have the free will and choice not to enter. ⁣

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i have noticed that sometimes we feel guilty for feeling a sense of peace in our lives, if the lives of others around us are chaotic. ⁣

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sometimes, we relate to people because of the lack of peace we feel in our lives. ⁣

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sometimes, all we know is to talk about how things are burning down and how life is out of control. ⁣

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we can get accustomed to (even addicted to) a LACK of peace even if deep down inside, it is all we desperately want.⁣

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have you been on this boat? are you on it now?⁣

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life is a constant journey. it is so easy to get swayed off the path of truth. it is so easy to get tangled up in bullshit. it is so easy to pick up on habits/behaviors that don’t serve you. ⁣

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the way you know how you have gotten off the path is when you start feeling disconnected from peace. ⁣

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the crazy thing is, most people live in that place ALL the time. in a state of constant fear and anxiety. a state very far from peace. ⁣

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there are a few things i started doing before i found myself truly understanding what peace actually feels like. ⁣

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one of these things was meditation… meditation helped me detach from myself. it helped me detach from the identity that i thought defined me. it helped me grasp the bigger picture of life and from this place, i was able to see that I AM not separate from anything. this brought a lot of peace into my life. ⁣

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another thing that helped me find peace in life was getting radically honest. even if that honesty was in a journal from me to me... being honest helped me accept that life doesn’t have to be perfect, nor is it meant to be. when i am honest with myself, i trust myself more. ⁣

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these are the two big things i implemented into my daily schedule that really changed the way i felt, especially when it comes to peace. i didn’t even know what peace felt like until i started to meditate. ⁣

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what are some practices that help you anchor peace into your life?⁣

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#getoutthetrap ⁣

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